Clockwise in all the corners we have: menu for currently active application (in this case workspace itself), the Dock, Recycler and icon for the only active application (File Manager, which cannot be closed). Please note that in OPENSTEP you can’t place documents or application on the desktop itself (at least without the use of third-party applications).

OPENSTEP’s File Viewer features unique Shelf for parking bookmarks to most used places (here with three default places), an icon-illustrated current path and the actual files in one of three distinctive views.

Open file dialog features pared-down, characteristic column mode. The three buttons at the bottom are used to jump to user’s home directory, jump to floppy disk, and eject the floppy (or prepare it for ejection).